Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, Book 2)
The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.
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Readers say *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* is a darker, more intense sequel that deepens friendships and amps up magical mystery with cleve...
It's short and still nips on quicker than I'd like for the cosy elements - the day to day life in the school, lessons, social life in the common room and quidditch, but I understand it's a book for younger readers who aren't so jaded in life that they long for a simple life of wizardry
I can’t decide if I enjoyed this story more than the first. It was much more intense, but the scene in the Chamber was so much shorter than I remember! I did love the deep connection that Harry, Ron, and Hermione created during this book.
The idea of tolerance within a community is essential in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The novel's plot explores this idea through Salazar Slytherin's intention to wipe out "mud blood," or wizards with non-magical ancestors, from Hogwarts.
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